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SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/3 v9] livepatch: disambiguate symbols with the same name
On Tue, Dec 01, 2015 at 08:40:53PM -0600, Chris J Arges wrote:
> Currently, patching objects with duplicate symbol names fail because the
> creation of the sysfs function directory collides with the previous
> attempt. Appending old_addr to the function name is problematic as it
> reveals the address of the function being patch to a normal user. Using
> the symbol's occurrence in kallsyms to postfix the function name in the
> sysfs directory solves the issue of having consistent unique names and
> ensuring that the address is not exposed to a normal user.
>
> In addition, using the symbol position as the user's method to disambiguate
> symbols instead of addr allows for disambiguating symbols in modules as
> well for both function addresses and for relocs. This also simplifies much
> of the code. Special handling for kASLR is no longer needed and can be
> removed. The klp_find_verify_func_addr function can be replaced by
> klp_find_object_symbol, and klp_verify_vmlinux_symbol and its callback can
> be removed completely.
>
> The following set of patches use symbol positioning instead of old
> addresses to disambiguate symbols that have the same name in a given
> object. This is necessary in order to be able to patch symbols with the
> same name within the same object. This requires modifications to the
> klp_func and klp_reloc structures to add an additional element. In addition
> the scheme used for the func directory in sysfs is modified to append the
> symbols occurrence in kallsyms.
>
> In addition, I've tested this patchset against a modified kpatch. I
> modified the kpatch livepatch scaffolding to set lreloc->sympos = 0, and
> lfunc->old_sympos to the nth occurrence of the symbol for that object in
> kallsyms. I was able to patch the same test patch as described here:
> https://github.com/dynup/kpatch/issues/493
> I've also tested this with sample livepatch code to test if the various
> old_sympos values work for unique and duplicate functions.
>
> v9:
> - use mod->name instead of mod->obj->name for klp_find_object_symbol in
> klp_write_object_relocations
> - rebase on current master
> - tested with kpatch

For the series:

Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>

--
Josh


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